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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the Breakthrough Montessori people were fairly smart and strategic in their roll out. They know that Montessori is basically catnip for gentrifier parents and that there are a lot of those in Wards 1, 4 and 5. Putting BM east of the river would attract the parents down there who don't want to send their kids to DCPS and would rather not drive for 45-60 minutes every morning to get to Petworth. Both would be a win, but if you state on your application that you are going to recruit the gentrifier parents, you will make little progress. If you say you want to locate east of the river and recruit "motivated students" in Wards 7 and 8, you check off the "social justice" box. I'm not saying that it's not sincere, but cynically, I think that they made a plan that they'd win either way.

There will always be a market for Montessori. White people love it the same way that we love any other cult - Whole Foods, yoga, Uggs, whatever. It works well for some kids and less well for others, but it's never not going to be popular.[/quote]

But of course Breakthrough is in temporary space. Who knows where they will end up eventually. [/quote]

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